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package org.apache.spark.sql

/**
 * Support for running Spark SQL queries using functionality from Apache Hive (does not require an
 * existing Hive installation).  Supported Hive features include:
 *  - Using HiveQL to express queries.
 *  - Reading metadata from the Hive Metastore using HiveSerDes.
 *  - Hive UDFs, UDAs, UDTs
 *
 * Note that this is a private package. All classes in this package are considered an internal API
 * to Spark and are subject to change between minor releases.
 */
package object hive
